Photophobia

Definitions: Photophobia

Photophobia

Noun

1. A morbid fear of light.

2. Pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light (often associated with albinism).

Domain	Definitions
Health	Abnormal sensitivity to light. This may occur as a manifestation of eye diseases; migraine; subarachnoid hemorrhage; meningitis; and other disorders. Photophobia may also occur in association with depression and other mental disorders. (references)
Medicine	Abnormal intolerance or fear of light. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonym: Photophobia

Synonym: photalgia (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Photophobia

Specialty definitions using "photophobia": Albinism, Ocular ♦ ocular crisis ♦ Pel syndrom, Pel's crisis, Photosensitivity Disorders ♦ tabetic ocular crises. (references)

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Symptoms include sudden fever, headache, vomiting, photophobia (abnormal visual sensitivity to light), stiff neck and back, confusion, drowsiness, clumsiness, unsteady gait, and irritability. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Photophobia" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Photophobia" is used about 11 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	11	106,044

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "photophobia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		fotofobi. (various references)

Arabic		‏فوبيا الضوء. (various references)

Bulgarian		фотофобия. (various references)

Czech		fotofobie. (various references)

Danish		fotofobi. (various references)

Dutch		fotofobie. (various references)

French		photophobie. (various references)

German		Photophobie. (various references)

Hebrew		פחד מפני אור, בעת אור. (various references)

Hungarian		fénykerülés, fényiszony. (various references)

Italian		fotofobia. (various references)

Pig Latin		otophobiaphay

Portuguese		fotofobia. (various references)

Russian		светобоязнь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		fotofobija. (various references)

Spanish		fotofobia. (various references)

Swedish		fotofobi. (various references)

Turkish		fotofobi, ışık korkusu. (various references)

Ukranian		світлобоязнь, фотофобія. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "photophobia": photophobias. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Photophobia" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Brontophobia. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "photophobia" (pronounced 'Pho`to*pho"bi*a'): Anglophobia, Bibliophobia, Cimbia, Cobia, Columbia, hydrophobia, Necrophobia, Nosophobia, nubia, Papaphobia, Russophobia, Sitophobia. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-h-h-i-o-o-o-p-p-t"
	-3 letters: photopia.
	-5 letters: phobia.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-h-h-i-o-o-o-p-p-t"
	+1 letter: photophobias.
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